Star Trek

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Do you know what Star Trek is really about?

British Imperialism... seriously... it's not a realistic simulation of space exploration or space combat... and it isn't even in three dimensions when they have space battles...

The Enterprise (the flagship of a federation of democratic states similar to Britain or America) beams down an away team to a planet (drops a crew on a strange island)... a nameless ensign in a red shirt (or two, or three) die merely to show how dangerous how dangerous the situation is...

The Enterprise meets up with a group of moral yet primitive aliens who wish to establish peaceful relations with the federation (British Imperialism) the natives help the federation in exchange for Doctor McCoy (the gruff chief surgeon on the ship) giving them medical technology...

But didn't the federation claim they had a "prime directive" not to interfere with less sophisticated worlds? Are these people simple hypocrites? Possibly...

Spock (the ship's scientist and philosophy savant) solves a problem using cold, detached logic... just like Charles Darwin deduced the theory of evolution... Captain Kirk (the charismatic yet willfull captain) sleeps with a girl from a less civilized society... thus violating the prime directive...

The episode ends with Kirk abandoning the girl on her primitive home planet (not only is our hero a hypocrite... he is a womanizer)... and the episode ends with McCoy and Kirk sharing a joke which Spock does not understand... Spock raises an eyebrow and the credits roll...

This is the exact same narrative as British Imperialism... they even have the decadent, machiavaellian Romulans (England's European rivals) and the foreign, warlike Klingons (Asian cultures trying their hand)... occasionally they fight an enemy which has dominated a single planet (as does a single tribal chief standing up against England)...

Believe me... I like Star Trek... but the political subtext is so thick and self-righteous even I can't stand it for very long...

You can find many diffrent cultures mixed together in trek but the main idea was exploring space and exploring new ideas for example how many times did they travel to a planet that had a man/woman/it/them who said they were a Diety and the trek guys disproved them and alot of the time had to defend themself self from said being who did not like the trek guys showing the other beings that the Super dude was not so all powerful. and more important sould not be followed without asking why. Gene Rodberry was Anostic a freethinker and yes trek is all so a western/ cold war drama in space